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  Camping Bans and Group Shelters Unlikely to Solve Homelessness Crisis

  Should Los Angeles continue to direct most resources toward creating permanent housing with services? Or should it try to rapidly add more group shelters and shared tiny homes which would allow the city to enforce camping bans in certain areas? There are compelling arguments for both approaches.

  May 23, 2022

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  Essay

  Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

  Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.

  Jun 27, 2022